Word: filming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Sophia Loren is The Countess from Hong Kong (1967) who takes advantage of rich American Ambassador Marlon Brando by stowing away in his stateroom. Charles Chaplin wrote and directed the film...
ROYAL FAMILY (CBS, 7:30-9 p.m.). The royal couple themselves suggested that the BBC and commercial British television might like to film an intimate picture of them en famille. This result was edited from almost a year's shooting, and shows Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip and the young royals behaving with cinéma vérité candor...
TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN. In a movie year not noted for levity, Woody Allen's first film as a director comes on like gangbusters. Although it tends to lose its comic momentum toward the end, there are more than enough insanely funny moments to sustain the picture...
...book has been on his mind for 30 years. In 1939 he attempted to stage it as an anti-Fascist parody. But Fellini scholars who enjoy tracing autobiographical ghosts through the master's films may find that Satyricon is a dead end. "This is my most tiring film," Fellini admitted after completing a hectic three months of editing. "It is more anguishing than La Dolce Vita because that had reality. Satyricon is made from an unknown point of view. I have invented everything myself, a universe out of my mind. There is nothing where I recognize myself. If anything...
...scenes like the death of a patrician couple who prefer suicide to inevitable political assassination, Fellini is attempting to render this vast fresco as a giant metaphor for the 1960s. "If Petronius' work is a full-blooded description of the atmosphere of those times," Fellini admits, "the film that I adapted from it is a panorama, an allegorical satire of our present-day world. It is a science-fiction film projected into the past, not the future, a journey into the unknown. But it is not an erotic picture...